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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National

Most of us understood the COVID rules well, so why don't fines stand?

Police patrol during New Year's Eve 2021. Picture by Marina Neil

SO the courts quashed the fines of some COVID curfew-breakers because they couldn't understand their fines. Just as well the other 99.99 per cent of Australians could understand the COVID rules, and obeyed them, or in my opinion we would have seen a return to the days of the black death plague when carts were driven through the streets to the cry of bring out your dead.

If the rest of the population had reacted the same way as these selfish few, they would have been dying in the tens of thousands. The usual apologists were out in force crying about people from lower socio-economic backgrounds being targeted. I work in a low socio-economic area and live in a medium socio-economic area. Crime and the like are hardly on the radar where I live and constant in the area where I work. I believe it has nothing to do with any perceived disadvantage due to the circumstances. It has everything to do with the fact that there are a far greater number of no-hopers living in these areas, probably with similar hopers as their parents.

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